The Mind-Body Problem by Rebecca GoldsteinMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
There was a thing I was hoping this would express and it basically didn’t.
I read it at the same time as rereading Middlemarch, thinking that there would be connections but imagining them to be more subtle. As it was, I read of Renee’s disappointing Roman honeymoon right after Dorothea’s, and thought that reading the newer book might have been superfluous.
I can see my best qualities in Dorothea; I can see my worst ones in Renee, and that’s what makes reading about her so excruciating–I hate her but kind of sympathize with her but want to distance myself from her as far as possible in a “not like other girls” sort of way.
Overall I found it predictable, tedious, very confused about philosophy, and totally missing out on the fact that there are beautiful and good things in the world in a disturbing way. Obviously I would say that, because of the above, so take it with a grain of salt.
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